The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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... seen ; and I also believe that some breeds at present existing may be ascertained to be free from this cross , by their small brain - cases ; but , still , none have the perfectly flat head of the reptile in question . The tyro ...
... seen ; and I also believe that some breeds at present existing may be ascertained to be free from this cross , by their small brain - cases ; but , still , none have the perfectly flat head of the reptile in question . The tyro ...
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... seen cream , yellow , brown , dun , and grey dogs . When a plain colour is speckled with small white marks , the dog is said to be ticked . The black , red , and fawn are the most highly prized by most coursers , especially when the ...
... seen cream , yellow , brown , dun , and grey dogs . When a plain colour is speckled with small white marks , the dog is said to be ticked . The black , red , and fawn are the most highly prized by most coursers , especially when the ...
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... seen a specimen or even a good portrait of it . THE PERSIAN GREYHOUND Is an elegant animal , beautifully formed in all points , and re- sembling the Italian in delicacy of proportions . In Persia he is used for coursing the hare and ...
... seen a specimen or even a good portrait of it . THE PERSIAN GREYHOUND Is an elegant animal , beautifully formed in all points , and re- sembling the Italian in delicacy of proportions . In Persia he is used for coursing the hare and ...
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... seen , as will be evident from the annexed pedigree . He is of a black colour , is very handsome , and is considered by " fanciers " to be perfect in all his points . The engraving gives his proportions most exactly , but represents him ...
... seen , as will be evident from the annexed pedigree . He is of a black colour , is very handsome , and is considered by " fanciers " to be perfect in all his points . The engraving gives his proportions most exactly , but represents him ...
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... seen very good sport with very unhandsome packs , consisting of hounds of various sizes , differing from one another as much in shape and look as in their colour ; nor could there be traced the least sign of consanguinity amongst them ...
... seen very good sport with very unhandsome packs , consisting of hounds of various sizes , differing from one another as much in shape and look as in their colour ; nor could there be traced the least sign of consanguinity amongst them ...
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Página 7 - ... dogs in general, more than the different kinds of dogs do from each other. The cranium is absolutely similar, and so are all, or nearly all, the other essential parts ; and to strengthen still further the probability of their identity, the dog and wolf will readily breed together, and their progeny is fertile. The obliquity of the position of the eyes in the wolf is one of the characters in which it differs from the...
Página 59 - ... he has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. - Let his legs be straight as arrows; his feet round, and not too large; his shoulders back; his breast rather wide than narrow; his chest deep; his back broad; his head small; his neck thin; his tail thick and brushy: if he carry it well, so much the better...